Description: Perron04_203 1879 Perron map: Westfjords, Iceland, #203 Nice small map titled Péninsule du nord-ouest de l'Islande, from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression. Overall size approx. 19.5 x 16 cm, image size approx. 12 x 11 cm. From La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, 19 vol. (1875-94), great work of Elisee Reclus. Cartographer is Charles Perron. Westfjords The Westfjords or West Fjords (Icelandic: Vestfirðir) is a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland and an administrative district. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast of Greenland. It is connected to the rest of Iceland by a 7-km-wide isthmus between Gilsfjörður and Bitrufjörður. The Westfjords are very mountainous; the coastline is heavily indented by dozens of fjords surrounded by steep hills. These indentations make roads very circuitous and communications by land difficult. In addition many of the roads are closed by ice and snow for several months of the year. The Vestfjarðagöng road tunnel from 1996 has improved that situation. The cliffs at Látrabjarg comprise the longest bird cliff in the northern Atlantic Ocean and are at the westernmost point in Iceland. The Drangajökull glacier is located in the north of the peninsula and is the fifth-largest of the country, but the only glacier of the region.
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Publication Year: 1879
Year: 1879
Topic: Maps
Country/Region: Iceland
